. >> senator, so last week, ron johnson and you and others said what we need to do, the house passes 98% and below, allows the top 2% to go up to 39.6. just what the president wants. and then we start talk pg about spending and entitlement cuts in light of the debt ceiling coming in in february? is that what you're talking about now? so we're going to -- >> we're going to have to see whether the rank and file that boehner tries to get, if they don't go along -- you're saying they should mutiny and not do this deal he wants to do now and do this other one that puts the onus back on the president next year to come to the table for entitlement cuts. is that what you're saying? >> i don't even think speaker boehner unless, again, something's happened early this morning, he's not even going to try to sell this deal because he knows that the offer that they've made is not real yet. in other words, again let me say the cuts are to be determined down the road, with another fiscal cliff, that's being created. so what i would hope, joe, is right now, we would go ahead and implement the entitle